Error: SQLSTATE[HY000] [2002] No such file or directory

Question

I know this type of question as probably been asked a couple of times, but they all have something to do with laravel, in my case this is vanilla php with no framework.

Answer 1

I finally solved the problem, thanks @Dlk for your help.

The cause of the problem was because in database.php, I was referring to the host for mysql as localhost instead of the name of the MYSQL service in the docker-compose.yml file. Hence database.php file should look like so :

 PDO::ERRMODE_EXCEPTION,
    PDO::ATTR_DEFAULT_FETCH_MODE => PDO::FETCH_ASSOC,
    PDO::ATTR_EMULATE_PREPARES   => false,
];
try {
     $pdo = new PDO($dsn, $user, $pass, $options);
} catch (\PDOException $e) {
     throw new \PDOException($e->getMessage(), (int)$e->getCode());
}

?>

which correlates with my docker-compose.yml file

version: '3.7'

services:
  php:
    container_name: nairobi_php
    build:
      context: ./
    volumes:
      - './src:/var/www/html'
    depends_on:
      - mysql
    ports:
      - 80:80

  mysql:
    container_name: nairobi_mysql
    image: mysql:8.0
    environment:
      MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD: CUeHpADRmZCtnTFGctxp
      MYSQL_DATABASE: nairobi
      MYSQL_USER: admin
      MYSQL_PASSWORD: 123456
    restart: always
    command: --default-authentication-plugin=mysql_native_password
    ports:
      - 3306:3306

  adminer:
    image: adminer
    restart: always
    ports:
      - 8080:8080